[ when fighting a ghost, cloud expects his fist to just fly right through him, to dissolve this hallucination and send it away. when that doesn't happen, and instead his fist connects hard with zack's face, shock pulses through him violently and the first tendrils of doubt begin to seep in.
looking away, cloud doesn't go in for another hit, but just breathes as his mind races to try and make sense of everything that's happening. finding himself whisked away by faeries had been one damn thing, but now this? it's becoming way too much. ]
You're not-- [ no. just no. zack was gone. dead from bullets raining down on him, from protecting cloud when he should have just run. he's dead, gone, lost.
slowly, cloud pushes himself off the ground, climbing back on his feet. ]
He's dead.
[ cloud will never forget that crack inside of himself, that break in his person, his soul, the sensation of losing all faith when zack had breathed his last words. it had changed him for good, and it's not something this place gets to toy with simply because they want him on their war team. ]
excuse u this is all ur fault zack!!!!
looking away, cloud doesn't go in for another hit, but just breathes as his mind races to try and make sense of everything that's happening. finding himself whisked away by faeries had been one damn thing, but now this? it's becoming way too much. ]
You're not-- [ no. just no. zack was gone. dead from bullets raining down on him, from protecting cloud when he should have just run. he's dead, gone, lost.
slowly, cloud pushes himself off the ground, climbing back on his feet. ]
He's dead.
[ cloud will never forget that crack inside of himself, that break in his person, his soul, the sensation of losing all faith when zack had breathed his last words. it had changed him for good, and it's not something this place gets to toy with simply because they want him on their war team. ]